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Qualcomm’s NPU Upgrade Unlocks Massive 30B Parameter AI Models For Next-Gen Phones

Over the past several weeks, Qualcomm has been revealing key details about the future of its next-generation mobile platform, including a blistering 5GHz Oryon CPU architecture and a new Adreno Neural Fusion graphics engine. Following up on those announcements, Qualcomm has now detailed the third major pillar of its next Snapdragon flagship: a redesigned Hexagon NPU built specifically for agentic AI and massive parameter models.

Bigger Shared Memory And Transformer Acceleration

Qualcomm's updated Hexagon NPU introduces two notable hardware upgrades to handle persistent, multi-modal workloads without draining smartphone batteries, including an Element Accelerator and an expanded shared memory pool.

The Element Accelerator combines high-throughput vector extensions for raw matrix math with scalar extensions to accelerate execution logic, decision-making, and tool routing. Qualcomm says it's purpose-built for the kind of transformer workloads that power today's generative and agentic AI, and the end result is a mechanism that helps AI respond faster...

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I Put Coway’s Airmega Halo Through a Smoke Test. The Results Were Complicated

Inside, the Halo has a cylindrical IEST-certified HEPA three-stage filter that claims to capture 99.97 percent of nano-sized particles down to 0.3 microns, but in my opinion the coolest feature is the MegaScan Particle Sensor, which continuously monitors the air in real time to detect smoke, fine dust,

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The iPhone Duo’s hardware doesn’t look special, but its software might be

With the iPhone Duo, Apple has pulled off a familiar trick. It arrives into a mature Android foldable market with a handful of hardware features we’ve mostly already seen elsewhere, but paired with a level of software polish that makes a lot of them feel new again. It’s

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Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch. Still, they heard a large consumer goods company with logistics needs was in town to meet with four rival robot companies about

Apple stock price target cut to $370 from $380 by BofA: What investors should know

BofA Securities has lowered its Apple stock price target to $370 from $380. The investment firm kept its Buy rating on Apple shares, meaning it still expects the stock to perform well despite the lower target. The main reason for the lower target is Apple’s iPhone pricing. BofA said

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